Only in America

This took place in Charlotte, North Carolina . A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous.. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable 'fire' and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars that perished in the "fires".

Now for the best part...

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine. This true story won First Place in last year's Criminal Lawyers Award Contest. Only in America! NO WONDER THE REST OF THE WORLD THINKS WE'RE NUTS!

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Screw you blog which I cannot remember to updates on a daily basis even thought I have topics worthy of discussion!!

Dante

Dante’s Inferno was foremost inspired and written as a political essay to address the crimes and corrupt politics threatening to subvert the very social and religious fabric from which Dante’s life was built upon. The Inferno, despite a fictitious work, was a direct attack of the political and religious entities of Italy. Dante’s intent in writing the Inferno was to express his dissatisfaction with the Catholic Church and bring justice to those sinners. Dante assumed the position of a judge, condemning all those he felt had betrayed God, their country and more importantly, Dante himself. Unlike a benevolent god, Dante was not really concerned with redemption: he was concerned with bringing justice to, and taking out vengeance on those he felt had wronged him.

What was the purpose of posting this you may ask? Well because I don't have anything better to say and I just finished my essay on it. So that's why. Yeah, deal.

Harry Kalas

I was absolutely shocked to hear this news. When I looked earlier in the day, the news hadn't come in yet, only that he had fainted. It's hard to believe he's gone. It's not going to be the same watching Phillies games without him. I think at least the voice of the Phllies was able to see them win a Championship before time took him. But it's still a shame...

RIP Harry! You'll be missed.

Happy Easter!

He has risen, he has risen indeed!

I went to my older church today, just for the worship(cause its 10x better) and it was amazing. I felt so invigorated and filled with the Spirit. I just wanted to cry in happiness. T'was wonderful. God is good.

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!

Over a Week

What else is new.

I was reading some blogs today and revisited some sites I haven't in a while. I came across Adbusters.org again. If you've never checked it out, its worth a looksy. There's this one fictional story I read on there back in September and I found it again. The story is both inspiring, but ultimately haunting. It's so ominous. Ominous seems to be my true word of the week despite whatever I posted in Xanga. But it's true, everything is ominous lately, I don't know why. In any case, check out Adbusters and look up "Somewhere to Go". I even bought the magazine issue the story appeared in just so I could have a hard copy. Its that good.

April 1st

This is a public service announcement:

Okay, every year on April 1st I forget to pull some sort of April Fools Joke and since it happens once a year, it sucks. A lot. So I just wanted to make everyone else aware, if you too forgot, to pull one.

Thank you and have a wonderful, joke filled day.